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NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi govt has prepared a seven-year blueprint under which central troops will be pulled back from law and order duties in Jammu & Kashmir, leaving J&K police exclusively in charge of that domain. He also said assembly ...

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ISTANBULChina chided the US on Monday over the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in a broadside over its support for the Philippines following the latest in a series of flare-ups between the two Asian countries.“BTW, when will the US ratify UNCLOS?” Vice-Foreign Minister Hua Chunying retorted ...

SYDNEY: Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to halt and reverse biodiversity loss through ambitious law and policy reform. The federal government is currently rewriting our national environmental laws and updating the overarching Strategy for Nature. The updated strategy will include, among other things, goals for the restoration of degraded ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to pass an order staying the Citizenship Amendment Act rules that were notified by the Centre on March 12, reported Live Law. The court also asked the Centre to respond to the clutch of petitions that are challenging the law by April 2.The ...

The Indian government’s recent announcement of rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law has sparked protests in India, with many accusing it of polarizing the society ahead of general elections scheduled for next month. Under the Citizenship Amendment Act or, CAA, “persecuted” religious minorities from Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and ...

These refugees can acquire Indian citizenship within five years even if they enter the country without papers.India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on March 11 announced details about the implementation of the CAA. Shah, a close Modi aide, said on X the CAA would “enable minorities persecuted on religious grounds ...

The State of Kerala has moved an application in the Supreme Court seeking an injunction against the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024.The State said the Centre took over five years to notify the Rules. This itself indicated that the Union government ...

New Delhi’s strong response follows the US State Department saying it will ‘closely monitor’ the implementation of the religion-based law.India has rejected comments by a United States official raising concern over the implementation of a religion-based citizenship law as “misplaced, misinformed and unwarranted”. On Monday, just weeks before the ...

New Delhi on Friday termed the recent comments from Washington on Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 as 'misplaced, misinformed and unwarranted".Rejecting concerns raised by US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Millers on Thursday on CAA implementation, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson stated, "As you are well aware, the Citizenship Amendment Act, ...